The Portland daily press., 1887-09-08
suLLoWAY's CHARGES.
A New Hampshire Legislator Attacks
the Boston & Maine.
He Tells of Financial Wreck and Pur-
chased Support.
Excited Mr.. Colby Willing to Nee,
Reflections on His Honesty.

CONCORD, N. H.. Sept. I'm the New
Hampshire House this morning, discussion
on the railroad bills was resumed Mr.. Sul-
loway was the first speaker. He said that
this is not contest between railroads. but
between stock brokers, stockholders and
railroad wreckers on the one hand, and the
people of the State on the other. ''These
men are not at Concord on invitation of any
railroad or corporation, and challenge them
to show that they are. They are here as
plunderers for power and conquest. and to
wreck railroad. Their path in Maine. Mas
sachusetts and New Hampshire is strewn
with financial wreck and disaster. They are
not here to build roads, but to rob us. Where
is the road the Boston Il Maine ever bnilt
and paid for in this State since their main
line was constructed? All the roads in the
southwestern section of the State were built
by the Eastern road and New Hampshire
capital and the Maine squeezed them until
it secured control of them. The policy of
New Hampshire has never been changed.
1t has made the railroads its servants. The
railroads have never controlled the people,
and the Colby bill was passed to perpetuate
that policy. The people must either be con-
trolled by railroads or control them, and as
we are opposed to any change, that is one
reason we do not believe in the Hazen bill.
The report OF majority of the railroad
committee was one of the most infamous
and insolent things ever presented to the
One reason given,for the passage Of the
Hazen bill is good faith. Such talk the
speaker characterized as deception, and as
being made Tor the purpose of imposing on
members. me- There was nothing in the Colby
Dill warrantlng any such claim. Mr.. Sullo-
way then referred to the statement made by
Mr. Colby OF Claremont, in opening, that he
was obliged to speak on the Hazen bill.
before he had proceeded far, Mr.. Colby
arose and interrupted the speaker, saying in
substance that he wished the gentleman to
say just what he meant, and that he Colby
would be willing to meet any intimation of
dishonesty at the proper time
Mr.; Sulloway emphatically disclaimed any
such lmputation. This episode created con-
siderable excitement for the time being.
continuing his argument Mr., Sulloway
SAID the only reason given by Mr.. Colby in
his speech last night for opposing the Ather-
ton bill was that syndicate controlling
large blocks of Montreal stock would be
benefited Harry Bingham of Littleton,
one of the so-called syndicate, had stated that
such thing was impossible. and that if the
bill was not sufficiently strong to prevent
anything of that kind the railroad committee
could draft q section to cover it, "If this
Atherton bill be defective" continued the
speaker, 'why doesn't the gentleman from
Claremont remedy it? There isn't particle
of water in that stock. The people along
the road put in their hard cash 40 long years
ago, and the public has had the benefit of it
since and those poor people never got a dol
lar on their investment. A large amount of
that stock is still held by the original owners
or their legal heirs and / would if possible,
give them a dividend. Is it any answer why
dividends should not be paid on that stock,
because one-fourth OF it is held by certain
gentlemen"
The speaker said that no such results as
the gentleman from Claremont had pictured
could follow the passage of the Atherton bill,
but II they should he would be glad of it. He
asserted that Mr.. Colby was not the author
OF the Colby bill and all reports to the CON
trary were put forth to deceive. The speaker
SAID he was present when that bill was be-
gotten and claimed to be in a position to
know as well as anybody in the State what
the purpose and intention of the Colby bill
was. He asserted that the Manchester Union
was paid 5000 by the Boston and Maine for
the misrepresentation it publishes daily for
tue purpose OF deceiving members and the
people of the State. He said the contest in
1888 was whether the Northern, Montreal
and Concord should unite into one line
and the Maine and Eastern into another.
AT that time the only opposition to the Colby
Dill came from the Amoskeag Manufacturing
Company, the Canadian Pacific and the Bos-
ton d Lowell, these railroads opposing the
bill because it did not allow foreign lines to
unite. The Boston q Maine, he said,
thronged the lobbies of the Senate to pre-
vent the passage of the Todd bill to reduce
fares to two cents mile, while the Concord
road. about which they say so much, yolun-
tarlly cut down the tariff to that point. The
Maine now said to the Senate, don't pass
the bill until all our leased lines, poor and
unprofitable as many of them are, have paid
dividends of s per cent"
AT this point the House adjourned till
afternoon.
The Senate committee in the Sawyer bri-
Dery case commenced its hearing tonight
Sawyer testified that Pierce offered him S5OOc
on behalf OF the Boston and Maine. Pierce's
testimony was an absolute denial.